Gangs in Europe and India exploit the poor for organs to sell to UK patients. Mazher Mahmood exposes a flourishing illegal trade

AN INVESTIGATION today exposes the organised criminals who secretly trade
organs for British transplant patients for as little as £4,500.

The gangs, operating in eastern Europe and the Indian subcontinent, prey on
the desperation of patients requiring organs and the poverty of donors who
often earn less than £1,000 from the exploitative deals.

The so-called organ brokers have developed a network of corrupt officials who
provide fake documentation to show that donors are related to the
recipients, a legal requirement in Britain and several other countries. They
have also recruited corrupt doctors who conduct medical tests and help
arrange transplant operations in the donors’ homelands.

Police are investigating the first case of people-trafficking for organs in
Britain after a woman was brought to the country last month by an eastern
European gang that planned to sell her kidney.

However, the international trade in human organs has been flourishing for
several